Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-19
THE HEATED TERN.
HIGH AE71cs or THE THERMOMETER
III ALL DIRECTIONS.
Almost Unprecedented Weather Rsp'rtsd'
Human Beings and Animals Suffer-
ing Aliks-Dsaths and
Prostrations.
rBy telegraph 70 the D,spssch.I

LYscHBuRs, July 1s.-This is the
hottest day ever recorded in this city:
The thermometer at p. NJ. registered
1862 in the shade. Business was prac-
tically suspended.
LOUISVILLE. July l8.-Fourteen cases
Of sunstroke were reported yesterday,
eight Of which were fatal.
CINCINNATI, July 1S.-There were
reported up to midnight forty-eight
cases OF sunstroke yesterday, OF winch
eighteen were fatal, and at midnight
there were numerous additional calls
for patrol wagons for new cases, The
mercury on the streets during the most
of the day ranged from 100 to lO4, and
the air was very still.
REGISTRATIONS AND DEATHS.
PHILADELPHIA, July 18.-There WAS
but little diminution in the temperature
to-day. Up to noon six deaths from
heat we're reported. There we're eigh-
teen deaths yesterday and five Satur-
day.
CIxorSSATI, July 1s.-The heat is
undated. At noon the thermometer
registered 97o. There were sixteen
prostrations and six deaths.
PITTSBURGH, July lS--A good breeze
and slight drop in the temperature
made life more endurable to-day, al
though the death-rate is the largest
known in years. The mercury this
morning at Z o'clock registered $50 and
at o'clock this afternoon rising to 9io
in the shade. At the same hour yester-
day it registered 1902. Seventeen sud
den deaths from heat were reported to
the coroner up to noon and nearly
twice that number prostrated, who will
recover. Nearly all the factories and
mills have temporarily suspended ope-
rations during the heat of the day.
ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS BEATEN.
WAsHGNGToY, July 18.-The Their
mometer to-day beat all previous re-
cords for the month of July since the
establishment of the signal service by
climbing up to the maximum of 1922,
and the only day in any month since
| the Weather Bureaus establishment in
which higher temperature than to-day
was recorded was the 7th of September,
| 1881, when the mercury reached lOi0.
| There were fifteen or more cases OF
prostitution, and five OF these are known
to have resulted fatally. A shower OF
rain in the afternoon cooled the at
mosphere considerably. One notice
able feature of the heat for the past few
dovs has been the hot parching winds
that swept like sirocoos through the
city in the middle Of the day.
cHICAGo's MORTALITY.
CHICAGO, July 18.-The sickle Of the
sun cut wide swath in the population
of Chicago last week and yesterday. II
Lad its victims in every grade of society
and left themi in every part of the city
A welcome breeze that sprang up las'
evening saved many lives but many &
sufferer was past all hope, and tn
NIGHT AID morning added to the death
list. Twenty deaths from sunstrok
were reported yesterday, and as many
more this morning, and 263 babies les
than a year old fell sick and died from
the heat. There were about 135 deaths
altogether reported up to noon, anc
only half the day over. the weather
was muggy and the air heavy this
morning, but breeze was still blow
ing, the thermometer in various part
of the city ranging between 50 and 9O'
1927 IN CHARLESTON, s. C.
| CHArLEsroN, s. c., July 1S.-Thi
wes the hottest day this summer, the
thermometer registering l03s at
o'clock Ills afternoon. Three Whit
and one colored man were overcome 10y
heat, but were not dangerously affected
The city is crowded with excursionists
1,900 persons accompanying an excur
sion for the benefit of the Order Of
Railroad Conductors.
TwENIY-oNE VICTIMS N ROCKFORD, ILL
| CHICAGO, July 1S.-A Times specia
from Rockford, III says: Twenty. ont
deaths resulting from oppressive hea
have occurred in Rockford during th,
rast three days. Nearly all the vic
tins were children.